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The Integral Nature of the Scientific Enterprise

2024-08-23

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Science seeks to explicate truths about our reality. But what is truth? How do we know things? Given our ignorance, and our fallibility, why should scientists be trusted? A theory of knowledge that addresses these human questions is sketched, in conversation with recent advances in thermodynamics which underline the seminal importance of unity by demonstrating (i) a definite physical meaning of the idea of “unitar...

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Literature Corpus work: 80d1c05f-237c-5cb5-9db7-1cd467dde954
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202408.1674.v1

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